Six Sisters. 12 Days. Ten Facts. -

Santa Sugar Cookies from the Six Sisters cookbook, "12 Days of Christmas." — Santa Sugar Cookies from “12 Days of Christmas.” Photo courtesy of Shadow Mountain Publishing.

Today my Standard-Examiner column featured the Six Sisters Stuff and their “12 Days of Christmas” book, with recipes, crafts and ideas for the holidays. Here are ten things I learned while interviewing the oldest sister of this popular blogging team, Camille Beckstrand.

1. Camille lives about two blocks away from me in the same Kaysville subdivision. Small world! I’m surprised we haven’t run into each other before; I’m sure I’ve taken walks past her house many times.

2. They wrote most of the book last spring. To get in the holiday spirit, they pulled out their decorations, put on Christmas music and did eight straight weeks of holiday baking and crafting, said Camille.

The Six Sisters blogging/cookbook team. Photo courtesy of Shadow Mountain Publishing.

3. The sisters, daughters of Cyd and Larry Adamson, grew up in Layton.

4. In addition to Camille, the other sisters are Kristen Hill, Elyse Ellis, Stephanie Loiaiza, Lauren Adamson and Kendra Adamson.

5. When some of the sisters began moving away from home, the group initially started their blog to keep in touch and share recipes and craft ideas with each other.

Gingerbread Waffles from the "12 Days of Christmas." — Gingerbread Waffles from the “12 Days of Christmas.” Photo courtesy of Shadow Mountain Publishing.

6. Many of the ideas given in the book are drawn from childhood memories and traditions that their parents started. For instance, their mom first made the Santa Cookies after she saw some similar cookies in a bakery.

7. Their dad, Larry Adamson, is the one who made the Gingerbread Waffles (recipe is in the book), and only during Christmas.

8. The women do their own photography for their blog and cookbooks. “We had zero training, but we were adamant that we do our own pictures to show that’s what the food will really look like,” said Camille. “What you see is what you get. If we can do it, you can do it. That’s why our readers have really connected with us.”

9. Since there were 12 sections in the book, each sister oversaw two chapters.

10. The book lists 12 ideas for “giving back.” One of Camille’s favorite traditions is “Ring and Run.” You put together a box with all the foods needed for a Christmas dinner, leave it on the doorstep of someone who needs it, ring the doorbell and run as fast as you can before they can see who left it.

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